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paper aims to identify the supporting criteria of information literacy in the websites of university libraries, and to evaluate the library websites of Iranian top universities compared to those of the world, Furthermore, the study investigates the awareness of the supporting criteria of information literacy among the graduate students of Knowledge and information science in Ferdowsi University of Mashhad. It also studies how important the criteria and its application is from their perspective.
It's an applied research, and has been done by evaluative and surveying methods. Sampling methodology is purposeful and the sample consists of ten websites selected from each of those two said groups. In addition, to study the students’ approaches, the graduate students of Knowledge and Information Science opinions are studied by census method. Data collection is done by questionnaire and check list.
Findings: 48 supporting criteria of information literacy is classified according to the information literacy framework 2016. Based on the obtained findings, the existence frequency percentage of supporting criteria of information literacy is higher in the websites of world top university libraries than those of Iranians’. The Washington and Pennsylvania state universities are both ranked first with 75%, while the Isfahan industrial university is ranked last with 23%. The findings show that the framework which is unfamiliar to the students, is less applied, and seems to be less necessary from their point of view. The criterion of “searching as strategic exploration” framework is the most familiar (average 3.67), necessary (average 4.15), and applicable (average 2.79).

The general aim of this study is to evaluate the virtual reference desk in the websites of governmental university libraries.
The research method was survey.The statistical population is consisted of 90 websites of governmental university libraries of Iran that were taken from university ranking services (www.4icu.org).
Findings: Findings show that among 90 studied universities, 22 universities are in Tehran, and 62 universities are in other cities. 66.7% of universities have a direct link, and 15% have an indirect one at university homepage. 41% of them have a kind of virtual reference desk and 55% don’t have a link for it. 77% of virtual reference desks use a web form that most of them have limited items.
Only 11 websites have a written policy, FAQ questions, and so on. Findings also show that only 2 virtual reference desks were active and answered the research questions.

This research aims to investigate users’ views about the number of phases which users should go through to access information on library Websites; It attempts to investigate the depth of menu organization (or hierarchical structure of items) from the main page (Home) to related pages according to the principles of predictability and accessibility. 10 university library websites were examined by 30 MS and PhD students from different fields of sciences except library and information sciences. Based on a semi-structured questionnaire, they were interviewed during their navigation sessions and their opinions were recorded and analyzed. Results show that any increase in the depth of menu would have adverse impact on predictability and would increase the time spent to find items. We also found that more layers in the menus would lead to mis-categorization in the structure of Websites; it means that depth of menu would have adverse impact on predictability if these items do not use self-descriptive and understandable labels.

This study aimed to investigate users'' views regarding the understandability and predictability of labels used for representing information items (menus) in the websites of Iranian university central libraries. Library websites of 10 Iranian top-ranked universities were examined by 30 non-library graduate students. Data were collected by using semi-structured interviews and heuristic approach. Results showed that the labels used were not predictable by users in most cases and users had different perceptions about the labels. This problem results in users'' doubt in locating related items. Interviews with users confirmed the findings. Some new labels for representing information items were identified by considering users'' views and perceptions.

Academic library websites have an important role in information services to users. The aim of the present study was to assess library websites of Iranian universities based on general criteria evaluation and recognition their strength and weakness. In this analytical study, academic library websites of Iranian Universities were compared based on general criteria evaluation by using three checklists with questions which their validity were confirmed by experts and conducted research. During February 2103 period, 21 academic library websites affiliated to the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology were evaluated. Data were analyzed by Excel software.Findings/ Totally, in the studied academic library websites, on average, 33.144 of the internal content item, 32.324 of external content research items and 41.104 of the support items were considered in designing the web pages. Among the studied universities, 3 universities (004) had considered more than 514 of checklists information items in terms of designing their website. Universities such Ferdowsi, Shahed, and Tehran had taken the evaluation criteria into consideration in terms of libraries websites design more than other univessities.In general, the content and support of library website of Iranian ministry of Science, Research and Technology Universities were at low level.

Knowledge sharing (KS) is a process through which individuals mutually exchange their knowledge with each other and potentially through this process، opportunity for learning new experiences، training and implementing experience، skills and abilities are provided. Therefore، KS is important for various organizations. Accordingly، and because of the importance of KS، this research studies the status of KS and management of public universities’ central libraries websites in Tehran city. Survey method is pilot-descriptive and research tool is a questionnaire. Research community is staffs and stakeholders who are working or commenting on websites. Results of research show that sharing knowledge and influencing factors (including individual factors، organizational and information technology) in the study population have a more favorable situation. Findings indicate that among the above three factors، organizational factors than other factors are more barriers on KS. Website management does not have good situation and website management by libraries and good condition، by a library is limited to content part and other parts of technical and structural are managed by the University’s IT Section. Employee’s capabilities and skills that could be effective on working with the website and KS do not have good situation، especially in website’s structural and technical parts and staffs have more skill for working with the content of website. In all، although KS has a good situation among staffs، but KS and management of website is not coherent، dynamic and efficient.

The aim of this research was to investigate users’ perception about information organization (or arrangment) in Iranian univedrsity Library Websites. We evluated information organization' compatibility with users’ logic. Our population, in one hand, were Iran’s top academic library websites and, on the other hand, higher education students at Ferdowsi Mashhad University. Mixed method was used in this research including heuristic, cards sorting, and semi-structured interviews. Findings showed that information organization in Iran’s academic library websites did not follow users’ logic in half of the cases; it means that users had faced difficulties when they wanted to locate their required information items. It was approved by interview with 8 students. Finally, logical organization of information items was defined by users through cards sorting and then suggested pattern was presented for organizing information items on these websites. We suggest a model for information organizing in university libraries according to user's logic